“When I came up here for my interview, it was as though I’d been here before.” – The Shining
Today I dreamed of a paint color that doesn’t exist, but I guess it was just a pigment of my imagination.
The setting: back in 2017, I decided to look about for a new job. I applied at a few places, and one was particularly interesting – this one used all of the skills I’d been working on for decades, but in an entirely different economic sector. Think: building big space infrastructure.
The email came back. They were interested. They asked me to do an interview. “Sure!” I responded. But this was before the days of Zoom™ – this was a pre-recorded video interview, not the kind where you shake hands and size up the guy across the desk to see if he likes fart jokes, too.
No, in this case, I’m sitting in my home office, staring into my webcam like it’s a one-eyed cyclops judging my soul. “This is Skynet®, prepare responses, Human Number 43.” I’m talking to a computer.
A series of questions come up, written, on the screen. I can read, so I know I’ve got that in the bag! But, again, no human, no banter, just me and a screen in a digital void. It’s the most dehumanizing interview I’ve ever had, like auditioning for a role in The Matrix as The Matrix®.
The first nine questions? Cake. Technical stuff—group organization, technical development and implementation, the kind of problems I’ve been solving since Y2K was a thing.
I’m crushing it, feeling like a much taller Tony Stark, but without the goatee and smug. Then, question ten hits like a woke freight train: “Explain your thoughts on diversity.”
That’s it. No context, no follow-up, just a landmine characters on the screen.
I know what I’m supposed to do. I’m supposed to get on my belly to worship at altar of DEI or get booted as a candidate faster than Jeff Epstein’s video surveillance record.
Plato, that old Greek with a beard longer than a Grateful Dead® solo, had a story about a cave. Prisoners chained inside the cave mistook shadows on the wall for reality, they’d even fight to stay inside, not believing anything else could be true.
In 2025, the cave is a Zoom® call, and the shadows are the GloboLeft’s sacred cows.
A 2023 study from the British Journal of Social Psychology lays it bare: the GloboLeft’s opinions huddle in a tiny blue cluster, like hipsters at a kale convention, agreeing on everything from pronouns to net-zero. That’s the lead meme. There is an amazing congruence of thought. The GloboLeft has made the comment that the TradRight has “only one joke” but that’s based on the GloboLeft only having one thought, like a Reddit™ thread with one upvote.
The TradRight’s red cluster? It’s a sprawling mess: libertarians yelling about gold and wanting to lower the age of consent, preppers stacking ammo and buckets of wheat, Boomer grandmas quoting Thomas Sowell and Pat Buchanan. You want diversity?
This is diversity.
But I guess diversity goes only one way.
The Left is so far from reality, their ideology has become a religion, and their symbolic thing they call “diversity” is their holy grail. The problem is that it isn’t real diversity. Real diversity is a country called Japan filled with, wait for it, Japanese. Real diversity is China, you might spot a pattern here, filled with Chinese. Real diversity is America . . . filled with heritage Americans.
That provides a world filled with different people, some coming up with different ideas, some trying experimental cultures that might prove to create innovation that all men might, in time, embrace. Not you, India. Sit down.
Diversity for them is a symbol. It is also a symbol they worship over truth.
Let’s unpack how I navigated this cave and why you should ditch it, too.
The soulless interview, void of humanity, wasn’t a conversation; it was a ritual where they tried to find people who were already following their pattern of thought. The webcam was supposed to be my confessional, the HR diva asking the question the priestess, and “diversity” the sacrament.
No human face, no handshake: just a screen projecting shadows of GloboLeft dogma. It’s Plato’s Cave, but with worse lighting and a “connection unstable” warning. The GlobLeft’s obsession with “diversity” isn’t about different ideas; it’s about checking boxes to signal the same virtues they have.
You know, if we just fill in the entrance . . .
They’re so divorced from reality, they think a rainbow org chart solves world hunger. The 2023 study by the Brits is a flashlight into the depths of the cave where only one idea is true. The GloboLeft’s blue cluster is tight. Everyone nods in lockstep on gender, race, climate, because they’re repeating the same talking memos.
Say “biology matters to life outcomes” or “maybe fossil fuels aren’t evil,” or “men can never become women” and you’re excommunicated.
The TradRight’s red cluster? It’s a rollicking bar fight of ideas, just like the comments section here. Bitcoin bros vs. Bible-thumpers, all welcome as long as you bring your own beer. The study’s heatmap shows the Left’s a pinprick of conformity; the Right’s a supernova of debate. Guess which one’s closer to reality?
The reality gap, in action.
The GloboLeft’s ideology is their new religion, minus the hope or miracles but with mandatory Pride Month. No God, no Truth, no Beauty, and no Good. Those require judgement, and we all know that every good GloboLeftist knows that 400 pound hamplanet women are just as attractive as supermodels because Beauty isn’t real and gravity and mirrors are liars.
GloboLeftists must believe this, so that is what GloboLeftism is.
“Diversity” means Western Culture bad, not diverse thoughts. They’ll hire a trans astrophysicist over a straight white guy with a Nobel, then call it progress. An Indian gets hired and only hires other Indians from his own caste? It’s just his culture. A white guy does it? It’s racism.
GloboLeftists must believe this, so that is what GloboLeftism is.
Climate hysteria’s another psalm: they swear the planet’s doomed unless we ban gas stoves, ignoring any data that says we’re fine. Even St. Greta the Now Above The Age of Consent has said it: it’s not about the climate – it’s about redistribution of wealth.
GloboLeftists must believe this, so that is what GloboLeftism is.
Equity? It’s equality’s evil twin, demanding equal misery over equal shots. Everyone must be miserably poor.
GloboLeftists must believe this, so that is what GloboLeftism is.
Plato’s shadows were puppets; the Left’s are PowerPoint® slides with pronouns.
How the GloboLeft see the political spectrum.
Back to the interview.
I’m staring at my webcam, looking at the LED asking me . . . “Explain your thoughts on diversity.” It’s a gotcha, like asking a Christian to swear allegiance to Garfield® as his lord and lasagna savior. I knew the right script, the sacrament. “Diversity’s our strength, inclusion’s my passion, blah, blah, blah.” I’m not built that way. I lean into the mic and say, “When it comes to solving a technical problem, a diversity of viewpoints is essential to getting the right and true answer.”
Honest, direct, like a right hook. Different perspectives—engineers, coders, old-school gearheads, mechanics who fix stuff and the guys who have to run it collide to find truth, not to check boxes.
Do you see what I see?
I tell my brother, John Wilder (yeah, our parents didn’t believe in naming diversity), an HR drone with a clipboard and a heart of compliance about the interview. He shaked his head. “That wasn’t what they were looking for.”
No kidding, Wilderbro. They wanted a hymn to DEI, not a nod to reality. My answer was too red-cluster—too focused on Truth over their false sacrament.
The GlobLeft’s blue cluster doesn’t want diverse thoughts; they want diverse faces parroting the same gospel and then intermarrying to create a world of exactly zero genetic diversity.
Plato’s prisoner saw sunlight and realized the shadows were fake. My sunlight that day was the question exposing the Cave’s lie.
I didn’t get a callback. Shocker.
I won, though. I don’t know everything, but I could certainly spot these as false shadows. Besides, the last laugh was on them. During the interview? No pants.
That’s just how I roll, yo.
” like hipsters at a kale convention…….”
Dammit John, you made me spill my coffee again from laughing. My wife said she is going to send you the cleaning bill this time.
Just for clarification….does growing kale in the garden make me a hipster (or hipster-adjacent)? You’ve got me worried as kale was about the only thing that did grow well for me as all the rain caused the weeds to choke out my other spring vegetables.
I don’t want to put my hair in a man-bun and wear ironic clothes, but if that is what God is telling me to do….
JBird
I would have said “yes,” any involvement with kale makes you a hipster, but I learned from the BBC “farm” series that kale was a garden staple in Britain since the middle ages.
I still don’t like eating it, but I no longer consider it just a hipster fad.
It’ll grow in much less than ideal conditions and is a good source of needed nutrients.
nick
btw, any of the BBC ‘farm” series shows make for interesting and informative watching. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=bbc+farm+series
Just adjacent. You’re fine. No man-bun!
About 8 months ago I applied for a “unicorn” job. I say this because I figure there are maybe 3 or 4 people in the country with the qualifications the job was asking for: A veteran 3D Artist with AAA games experience (check), extensive Virtual Reality development experience in various game engines (check), technical illustration experience (check), who understands the military T.O. (Technical Order) system (check), as well as operational, instructor and evaluator experience specifically on the Minuteman III ICBM nuclear weapon system (check). (I’ve even actually launched two of them – test launches, obviously – from Vandenburg AFB). It was like they had read my long-form resume and written the ad. I checked off every single box – even the “nice to have” qualifications.
I sent in a resume and cover letter, and got ….. crickets.
Then I did some research into the project the company was just granted a $200 million-dollar government contract for … and it hit me: Gummint Contracts come with DEI requirements – and being Pale, Male, and Stale are the three strikes of death in that world. I thought about re-applying as Sha-Nay-Nay Jackson (don’t you DARE tell me I’m not a Wymyn-o-Colluh from the hood!) … but then realized that I wouldn’t want to work in a mentally corrosive environment like that anyway, so it was probably for the best.
Greetings. Impressive Unicorn qualifications indeed. I think. Don’t know enough to judge…and i’m sure not ‘Technically Competent’? enough to write the Book I have in mind, and make it ‘Believable’.
That Said:
…And You seem infinitely qualified to answer. Your Time and willingness permitting of course, my esteemed Sha-Nay-Nay-Niqua.
I know, I know.
The Govt. Has Had SERIOUS Issues, trying to track/find out WHERE Yuuge amounts of all kinda Military Stuff ended up. ( The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materiel that brandon donated to what ever budding democracy that was, notwithstanding, of course.)
Gosh. It could be in ANY country OR Hemisphere!
I mean it’s NOT like they could put a Tracfone® in every pallet, piece of equipment, or ‘Device’ now, is it?
the $$$$$ would be comparatively outrageous, fore shore.
$#@!…Now Where Was I ?
Oh Yeah. As it Relates To My Book:
I Kinda recall that ‘Friendly-Fire’ is a real thing, and THINK I read something about Tech Solutions to avoid same, at least for some ‘platforms’, or whateva Ya call ‘Em,
Again, could be just faulty memory, but do they actually have such?
Various scenarios spring to mind.
For example. 2 (Same Team) planes out of visual range. Is there some kinda tech to identify them as ‘Team Members’, and warn the Pilots not to shoot each other ?
Thinking outside the Box. (No Pun Intended)
Same Scenario. Sole distinction? 2 Females. The latest State-of-the-Art Maternity Flight suits, custom embroidered of course…Baby On Board.
Common Baby-Daddy, I think it’s called?
Is it technically possible that One, or Both, could somehow override any built in safeguards and fire their rockets (If there is such a thing) and in fact, One or Both could be Going Down? *
* Please disregard the fact that had this occurred originally….
What if a Pilot decided to shoot missiles at a Full Session of Congress, or some other imposing govt. edifice, like the Pentagon for instance?
Are (ALL) the missiles Hard-wired/pre-programmed to NOT engage certain geographical coordinates?
I am fully aware that it IS possible to fly a large commercial Jet into same (Pentagram) at ground level with pin point accuracy, but Could a U.S.A.F. pilot do a kamikaze, or would the plane ‘refuse’, somehow, based on similar ‘Friendly-Fire’ Tech?
Further more, and in collusion… ( I do apologize for my lengthy rambling, and I’m not even astride my trusty Dragon™ Dictate©)
Briefly as possible, for now: (For the Book of course)
“…as well as operational, instructor and evaluator experience specifically on the Minuteman III ICBM nuclear weapon system (check). (I’ve even actually launched two of them – test launches, obviously – from Vandenburg AFB)…”
Is there some inherent, insurmountable protection based on the GPS theory for those Bad Boys that would prevent them from being used on similar Official facilities. on land/sea/air…And I ALMOST Forgot!
The Final Frontier™ Space. Force.
Again, Thanks for any answers You may be willing/able to provide and NOT jeopardize any Oaths. Of Loyalty.
Wow! Amazing experience! But I’m sure Gupta’s cousin Ashdik from Mumbai who cheated his way through school can do better. /sarcasm
I just wanna get on the jet and not worry that a dei helicopter cuts in front of it (DC) or a dei pilot flips it on the runway (Toronto). This is a big ask. American Airlines for example virtue signals for diversity instead of hiring the best for the job. Take for example the pix below. Their graphic artist has sunlight illuminating the port side of the aircraft yet placed the shadow of the jet directly below. If American hires artists that don’t understand the concept of perspective, why should I trust them to hire pilots that understand aviation?
https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5610AQHuD57kUcuqtA/image-shrink_800/image-shrink_800/0/1685620827211?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=tKWw7_3XYDom3KWNrM5ULqpIn6uKMuxn8HuWIT_mSRg
Do the pilots get arrested for leaving black rubber skid marks on the rainbow flag when they land?
Lol. That would not be American Airline’s first woke transgression. Their female pilots don’t follow the correct comm protocol ( callsign first and repeat the runway assignment) and just say whatever is on their mind…
https://images.app.goo.gl/f95YmehNVvRJNEuE9
Well, the Indian pilots can’t keep the fuel switches “on”.
What is commonly called DEI is nothing less than anti-White racial bigotry, mostly from people who can’t compete with Whites on equal terms and as it turns out can’t compete with us even when given advantages.
Time for us to tribe up, everyone else has and we’re behind the curve.
Exactly.
The dirt is not magic, reality is not ruled by word spells, and beauty is not subjective.
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-necessity-of-objective-beauty
18 What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them
with ropes made of lies,
who drag wickedness behind them like a cart!
19 They even mock God and say,
“Hurry up and do something!
We want to see what you can do.
Let the Holy One of Israel carry out his plan,
for we want to know what it is.”
20 What sorrow for those who say
that evil is good and good is evil,
that dark is light and light is dark,
that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
21 What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes
and think themselves so clever.
22 What sorrow for those who are heroes at drinking wine
and boast about all the alcohol they can hold.
23 They take bribes to let the wicked go free,
and they punish the innocent.
Isaiah 5:18-23, New Living Translation
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%205&version=NLT
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm
There is truly nothing new under the sun.
You’re not going to find disagreement here 🙂
Over a year ago, we got stranded on the tarmac in ATL for 6 hrs. Missed our connection. Disembarked at 2AM into a zoo. DEI employees. We couldn’t get a straight answer, so guessed.
No luggage. 1/4 mile cab line. Managed to find a room in Midtown. Thankfully, had my MacBook. Got things straightened out by 4AM.
Our flight wasn’t until 4PM. So, stuck in Hartsfield most of the day. Our luggage arrived on our flight, thankfully.
I vowed never to fly again. And haven’t.
It’s been since 2017 for me, I think. Don’t miss it.
All the differences in the cluster proves, YET AGAIN, is that diversity is not anyone’s strength.
Cluster up, and cluster bomb, and all will become right with the world in due course.
The Tree Of Liberty’s roots are a-thirsting.
The sooner the inevitable shooting starts, the sooner we get it over with, and in the words of Samuel Adams “may posterity forget that they were ever our countrymen.”
I think you’ll really like Monday’s post.
We all think stuff should have happened by now. I work in some pretty serious military stuff and everybody is screaming for good dirty hand folks. Manufacturing back hahaha
It is all falling apart as we speak.
Anon-
I got away with no minority hiring, despite being in a 98% soul bro neighborhood within 1.5 miles. That was 17 years ago, when I sold the biz.
I’ve been a sole employee LLC since then. Had opportunities to hire Hispanics to do work. Denied that. Same now. Won’t.
But are getting back into the REO biz for the two banks I do lots of Phase Is for. Lots of subs for that. And sweetie will help with admin, being the former Board Secretariat of ING Americas (now VOYA®).
She’s taking a cut in pay. Cocktails & cheese/proscuitto plate at the Thoroughbred Lounge at the Charleston Place Hotel.
It is.
The same diversity of thought applies to men versus women, particularly in relation to hobbies. If you ask 10 guys what they like to do you will get 100 different answers covering a tremendous range of hobbies (and an extremely wide range of devotion to those hobbies, up to and including fanaticism). Women’s interests, in contrast, tend to be narrower in focus, more even-keeled, and also more family centric.
Many of my female friends view family as their hobby and so are willing to adopt the interests of their kids/spouse as a way to keep peace in the family and increase family unity. I’m glad they do, otherwise the divorce rate would be approaching 100% in this country.
Women are wired to be agreeable because they depend on the group more than men.
A posting on Blue Cluster Cult, and no mention of cow bell??????
The title was the last part I wrote. It does need more cowbell.
Diversity: I am a proud, stunning, and brave warrior for social justice through diversity that accurately reflects the demographics of 2025 America. This is NOT the over 80% White America of the 1960’s! Hiring practices MUST reflect current-day demographics.
For example, I think it’s absolutely shameful that the racial breakdowns of the players in the NBA and the NFL don’t reflect the actual population percentages in the general US population. I will not rest until that grave racial injustice is corrected. How can a little Asian boy, er child assigned male at birth, who is genetically destined to be 5’6” and 135 lbs, be proud if he doesn’t see an NFL starting quarterback who Looks Like Him?
I am also concerned that there is precious little diversity in OWNERSHIP of NFL teams. How is it that persons from 2% of the general population own over one third of NFL franchises? This does not reflect the US population! Where is the ethnoracial justice? Huh? Equity now!
I hope and trust that these examples prove my sincere and heartfelt dedication to Sacred Diversity. And if you refuse to hire me, then you are refusing to accept My Truth through my lived experience. That makes you guilty of anti-Sinotism, and I will make sure that the Anti-Defamation Reague makes the lest of youl days a riving herr. ADR don’t play, you bigot!
And why don’t we have blind players? Or players in wheelchairs?
Oh, yeah, we take sport seriously.